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Title: ‘To be white is to be racist, period,’ a high school teacher told his class
Source: Washington Post
URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news ... acher-told-his-class/#comments
Published: Oct 21, 2016
Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Post Date: 2016-10-21 22:42:59 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 61
Comments: 2

Following that discussion, an Oklahoma teacher is under fire and a high school is mired in the debate about how teachers should inject themselves into conversations about race in the United States.

NBC affiliate KFOR reported on the controversy last week after receiving a recording from an offended student at Norman North High School.

In the recording, the teacher shows a YouTube clip about imperialism. A man in the video uses white-out on a globe to illustrate how European influence spread across the world.

The discussion follows.

In the recording, the teacher asks: “Am I racist? And I say yeah. I don’t want to be. It’s not like I choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised.”

“To be white is to be racist, period,” the teacher says.

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The comments are running 90% or so sane versus DNC trolls

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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)

The comments are running 90% or so sane versus DNC trolls.

In today's world, that's hopeful.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-10-21   22:47:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Dakmar (#0)

This guy along with other are just poking the bear and keeping the hate and the races divided. We must keep the hate alive

Darkwing  posted on  2016-10-22   13:01:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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